Victor Kissine

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Victor Kissine (15.March.1953) was born in Saint Petersburg (when it was still called Leningrad). In 1972 he began to study composition and musicology (with M. Druskin) at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. His education (which included a course of graduate studies) lasted for 10 years. In the last decade of the Soviet epoch he composed an opera, Marat-Sade (based on the play by Peter Weiss), which in 1985 caused a scandal on the occasion of its first performance in Leningrad. At this time Kissine also wrote numerous film soundtracks, some of which won awards at film festivals in Berlin, Venice and Madrid. Kissine has lived in Belgium since 1990, where he teaches instrumentation and music analysis at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons as well as at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle in Brussels. In May 2008 Kissine was elected member of the Académie Royale des Sciences, Lettres et Beaux-Arts de Belgique. As a composer he initially concentrated on chamber music. In 1995 Kissine was awarded a first prize by the Tokyo Irino Foundation for one of the first works of this period, the string quartet Passe la nuit (1992). There followed a Piano Trio (1993), a Sonata for violoncello and piano (1995), Miroir for bass flute, violoncello and strings (1996), the octet Butterfly (1997), a Duo for viola and violoncello (1998), the Impromptu for violin and piano (1998), and the Partita for piano, harp and strings (1998). Kissine has received commissions from the Concertgebou

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Between Two Waves

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The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould

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Kissine/Tchaikovsky Piano Trios

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Piano Trios

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Victor Kissine: Between Two Waves

Piano Trios (piano: Khatia Buniatishvili, violin: Gidon Kremer, violoncello: Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė)

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Musiques Nouvelles 2012

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Oxalys

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Between Two Waves [ECM New Series 2312]

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Chamber Music

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Elegie

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The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould - Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica

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